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Standard-Examin-er National Thursday Way 20 1999 SA THE OLYMPIC SCANDAL Poll finds worldwide By BOB WARD r staff SALT LAKE CITY — People around the world still support the Olympic Games the athletes and corporate sponsors according to a poll conducted by the International Olympic Committee IOC spokesman Franklin announced the survey results at a press conference in Salt Lake where IOC officials are checking up on the Salt Lake Organizing Committee's preparations for the 2002 Winhailed the re ter Games Servan-SchreibServan-Schreib- er er Bring This Coupon Todagi36tk Tear Salt cheers for Games sults as a sign of international support for the Games but admitted he didn't know what respondents thought about the IOC itself The important conclusion of the poll acis that 76 percording to cent of respondents around the w'orld said they have a positive attitude toward the Olympic Games That represents a increase from a February poll taken before the IOC initiated various reforms in response to the Olympic bribery scandal The poll questioned 8000 people in 10 countries: Australia Brazil France Germany Italy Japan Spain Switzerland the Unit Servan-Schreib- er six-poi- nt CRISIS IN ed Kingdom and the United States Brazil remains the most upbeat about the Olympics with 93 percent of respondents expressing support for the Games Following closely behind were Italy with 90 percent support and Spain with 89 percent About two-thuof Americans felt positively about the Games an increase of four percentage points from the prior study Servan-Schreibsaid the results of the survey will be distributed soon to Olympic sponsors Contact reporter Bob Ward at 4 or bwarditandardnet er 532-210- SALE ENDS SATURDAY MAY 22! THE BALKANS NATO jets hammer Belgrade Ttie Associated Press t BELGRADE Yugoslavia -NATO jets pounded Belgrade and its suburbs today hitting a hospital and killing at least three people The residences of the Spanish and Swedish ambassadors were also damaged The bombings the strongest in Belgrade since the Chinese Embassy was mistakenly hit May 7 came on the same day that diplomatic efforts intensified and thousands turned out for the commemoration of Saint’s Day to pray for peace in Yugoslavia More and more people are turning to religion in Yugoslavia to help come to terms with the conflict in Kosovo while others have become increasingly vocal demonstrateven staging anti-wions in Serb towns These accompany reports of violent repression of the protests and desertions of at least 500 Serb soldiers serving in Kosovo “early the ordinary Serbian soldier getting out of Kosovo is saying: ’Well there’s no role for me in this and we want out of it’” said British Foreign Office minister Tony Lloyd “Equally the families of those same conscript soldiers are saying they don’t want their brothers their sons to go back to that situation” Lloyd said “It’s simply now Yugoslavia groaning under the burden that (Slobodan) Milosevic has placed on them” NATO acknowledged one of its weapons missed a target by 450 yards today and struck a building but did not elaborate I ar laser-guid- Peac© plan floated The bombings of the Yugoslav capital came hours after President Milosevic accepted the general principles for a Kosovo peace plan but demanded the details be directly negotiated with the United Nations Russia’s Balkans envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and Milosevic have been discussing a plan by Russia and seven industrialized nations to end the Kosovo conflict In a statement Milosevic’s office said “the solution could be found only politically and within the United Nations and with the active and direct participation of Yugoslavia starting from the principles of G-- 8 ” It said talks will continue Monday in Belgrade Milosevic’s demand for more talks under UN auspices with Belgrade as a full party appears to fall short of NATO demands for it to halt alliance airstrikes NATO among its five conditions to end the bombings seeks a total withdrawal of all of Milosevic’s 40000 forces in Kosovo a return of all refugees and a international force to police the peace accord well-arm- The UN view UN Secretary-Gener- ed Kofi al Annan visited northern Albania today and called for the United Nations to play a key role in resolving the Kosovo conflict Annan was surrounded by applauding refugees at a tent city in Kukes temporary home to the largest 100000 Kosovars ' single concentration of the nearly who 800000 ethnic Albanians have fled Kosovo since March After nearly 12 hours of talks negotiators from Russia and the Western powers broke up today outside Bonn Germany without agreeing to key elements of a joint peace plan The Group of Eight foreign ministry officials drafted a seven-pag- e working text of a resolution but many parts of it were left open for further negotiation - m W i i v VVV 'tbs HI©©!® Women’s WJ3S GfcEftSErtSiMi I I -- 3jl!0S5rIGESr-!gU!M- 0SJ555 ©EB3iEI (p©3233iltf 60t? 30 Women’s facUMteft m Qias0 ££piZ3)ftSiT gT3$uai3i aiSERbCilD 503fa (3D D (2D hofptyt? ahown rapraaantatla urattortmon&Noif Vi fcty yfiinar: Jewel lf - ¥ b arttortowtoraBiaatoitelatoto— aMtotoBuyOnQatOwaaoOf Bwt wHtor?rtodwl nnantoaawda— ortr— IBfwtedtotocfcqtewd9iqtpiMlplHotoiictePlpMrliaH H tovttaa GoflacMotoat tmamMtf Earn SpMP tootmm Odd To Joday Lir of fiwnof Wandwtv Ctemptorf No Fatf tonrtaMar JNCO Man's lariV Jm AJ0U SatojT Ootm JpmI vtd toms offend iMffi ipaart tvwigi 1 cradl purctaM ar aubpet lo Mtofata craft femU Oaoamt cannot t uMd tor papnart m account to pucfca 0 CartNfcatoa or on any pnor putcteM purcteatd in mj&m of too or mom Satorttan af nwchandte may ivy by toor As May 21 ft 22 1 9M tegular pricaa raflaGt ofhrtng prtcaa wtoch may not hm mated in atourt ate tercantaQat c ragufcr prtcaa Buy On Oat On at 50 olf mmt tlftac i r JCPanrwy JCPenney Conveniently Located at a Mall Near You: MALL 2300 Grant Avenue Ph 393-844- 3 CITY OGDEN LAYTON HILLS MALL 1050 Layton Hi!h Mall Ph 543-222- I 5 |
